Candidate Forum: Senate District 5 hopefuls Eggman, Ridenour weigh in on the issues
Susan Eggman and Jim Ridenour, both running for the state Senate District 5 seat in the November election, made their cases before The Bee’s Editorial Board on Tuesday.
District 5 covers most of Modesto, all of San Joaquin County and Galt.
Each touted their experience – Eggman as an assembly member who is terming out and Ridenour as former Mayor of Modesto.
Each spoke on COVID-19 and its impact in the San Joaquin Valley, how they would best serve the district and what they could do at the state level in Sacramento.
The forum was the second of several The Bee is hosting over the next month before mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election go out in early October.
Here is a schedule of what we’ve had, and what’s ahead (the asterisks represent the incumbent):
Monday, Aug. 31 – Stanislaus County supervisor, District 1: Buck Condit and Bill Zoslocki
Tuesday, Sept. 1 –Senate District 5: Susan Talamantes Eggman (D) and Jim Ridenour (R)
Thursday, Sept. 3 – Stanislaus County supervisor, District 5: Channce Condit and Tom Hallinan
Sept. 8 – Ceres mayor: Brett Durossette and Javier Lopez
Sept. 9 – Modesto City Council, District 1: Rosa Escutia-Braaton, Jennifer Hidalgo and Amin Vohra.
Sept. 10 – Modesto City Council, District 3: Jim Applegate, Janice Keating and Chris Ricci.
Sept. 15 – Modesto Irrigation District, Division 1: Larry Byrd* and Suzy Powell-Roos.
Sept. 16 – Modesto City Council, District 6: Jessica Gonzalez, Kelsten Obert, Hunter Sauls and David Wright.
Sept. 23 – Modesto mayor: Kristi Ah You, Ted Brandvold*, Rick Countryman, Naramsen Goriel, Doug Ridenour, Erin Sommer Tenorio and Sue Zwahlen.
Sept. 24 – Turlock City Council: Gil Esquer*, Rebecka Monez and Ruben Wegner for District 2, and Pam Franco and Robert Puffer for District 4.
Sept. 30 – Patterson mayor: Dennis McCord, David Keller and Mark Miles.
Also on Sept. 30 we will post a video with Democratic U.S. Rep. Josh Harder of the 10th Congressional District in similar interview format but without challenger Republican Ted Howze, who declined to participate.
This story was originally published September 2, 2020 at 4:00 AM.
